“Everything you ever wanted, I gave to you. In both lives, you made your own choices.”
“If anyone owes a debt here, it’s you who owes
me.”
Kiera’s face twisted in a final, ugly snarl, but
the bog’s poison had already corroded her
throat. She couldn’t speak another word.
She could only watch in horror as her own body
dissolved into nothing.
As she sank beneath the surface, a cold alint
entered my eyes.
“Come out.”
“Pushing your own female forward to take the
blame. How pathetic.”
As my words faded, the white tiger and his
companions emerged from the jungle.
The moment they saw me, their eyes burned
with a fanatical heat.
They quickly composed themselves, shifting
into their handsome human forms and walking
towards me, kneeling piously at my feet.
“Your Majesty, our glorious Alpha Queen. We
only wish to be your males.”
“We were guided by the Primal God to find our
Divine Maiden.”
“You look exactly like the goddess from our dreams…”
Before they could finish, Kael sent them flying
with a single swipe of his claws.
Roc and Ash stared them down, their eyes like
ice.
When begging failed, the lion and the eagle revealed their true intentions.
But Roc and Ash were no longer a flightless
bird and a helpless kitten.
Even with only one wing, Roc could still soar
into the sky.
Kiera’s proud eagle soon became a plucked
chicken, slammed to the ground with a
sickening crunch, its life extinguished.
The black lion clutched a deep, bleeding wound,
his breathing shallow and ragged.
The white tiger stared at me, then suddenly pulled a crossbow from his robes.
It was a tool he and Kiera had made, its arrow
tipped with a deadly poison.
But against absolute speed and power, such
tricks were useless.
In an instant, Kael’s jaws clamped around his
neck, and it was over.
I looked at the three powerful males I had
raised, a proud smile on my face.
Without the white tiger and his lackeys, the
Wildplains Tribe was quickly absorbed.
Kiera had treated her people terribly, forcing
them to live against their nature. Their
destruction was inevitable.
The Clearwater Tribe grew and grew, until it
spanned the entire continent.
Kael, Roc, and Ash became legendary warriors, leading our tribe to victory after victory.
After they had conquered the entire shifter
world, the three of them stood before all the
shifters and declared me the Alpha Queen.
They prostrated themselves before me, ready
and willing to fight for me for the rest of their
days.
A smile touched my lips. I shifted into my
human form and walked towards the highest
throne.
From that day forward, I was the Alpha Queen
of this continent.
